Politics● Low5d ago · Nov 1, 2026, 1:35 AM
Inside the U.K. movement to pardon women executed for witchcraft centuries ago
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In total, across England and Scotland, around 5,000 women convicted of witchcraft were executed, some by hanging and some by burning.
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